Posted by Joel Shepherd on 02/17/07 16:56

"Dan" <dan@tobias.name> wrote:

> On Feb 16, 5:30 pm, yout...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello, I am building a Intra-net and my requirement need is to disable
> > or even create a custom page for the default Windows message,
> > "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". Can someone please
> > show me some programmatic way or method to achieve this? :-)
>
> Stop using Internet Explorer and use a decent browser instead, such as
> Mozilla Firefox or SeaMonkey.

Without getting into whether IE is a decent browser or not, it is easy
to configure it to not show "friendly" error pages, and instead dump raw
and -- to http hippies -- pretty straightforward error data. An entirely
new browser is not required.

In any event, as others have mentioned, the real solution is
server-side, not browser politics.

--
Joel.

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